Dry Eye in the Contact Lens Patient Although there are myriad reasons why patients drop out of contact lens wear, ocular surface disease, and dry eye in particular, is a significant factor in many cases. At the same time, a diagnosis of dry eye does not have to mean the end of contact lens wear....
A lot of people ask me how to start a focus on dry eye in their practice—but the reality is, if you are practicing as a primary care optometrist, you may already have the beginnings of a thriving dry eye specialization. In the latest installment of Dry Eye Coach, I interviewed noted dry eye...
The classical thinking in categorizing dry eye patients according to the underlying etiology suggests that patients may be suffering either because of a lack of quality in their tears or a decreased number of tears. More recently, though, we have come to appreciate dry eye as a continuum, and while...
Dry eye often sits on the back burner of a busy medical-oriented optometry/ophthalmology practice like mine. Glaucoma and proliferative diabetic retinopathy dwarf seemingly smaller issues like ocular surface disease, right? Not if, like me, you’ve had a patient tell you that you saved their life...
Dry Eye Coach Podcast Whitney Hauser, OD and Caroline Blackie, OD, PhD On the Dry Eye Coach Podcast, our Innovation Series has featured people who were on the ground floor of ocular surface disease, with in-depth discussion of their roles in building knowledge and developing protocols, techniques...
Jade Coats, O.D. Kicking up the management and treatment of dry eye disease in my practice is first and foremost, beneficial to the patient. Simply by incorporating additional screening questions into the standard workup, my technicians have been taught to identify a dry eye patient from a mile...
